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of Clitonyx albicapilla, and is still quite abundant in all tlic 
woods. It is known to the colonists as the “Native Canary.” 
Genus SPHENCEACUS. (Common to Australia 
and New Zealand.) 
Sphenceacus punctatus, Gray. Fern-bird. “ Matata ” or 
“ Koroatito.” (Case II. No. 42 : female.) 
This recluse species frequents the dense fern of the open 
country, and the beds of raupo and other tall vegetation that 
cover the swamps and low-lying flats. In these localities 
it may constantly be heard uttering, at regular intervals, its 
melancholy call of two notes, “ u-tick, u-tick,” and respon¬ 
sively when there are two or more. It constructs a cup- 
sliaped nest, which is found attached to reed-stems standing 
together, or placed in a grass-tussock. It lays three eggs, ol 
a creamy white, prettily speckled over the entire surface with 
purplish brown. 
Fam. MOTACILLIDiE. 
Genus ANTI1US. (Found all over the world.) 
Antiius nov/e zEALANDiAsi, Gray. New Zealand Pipit. “ Pi~ 
lioihoi. (Case X. Nos. 22 and 23 : male and female.) 
Common throughout the country, ficqucntmg the open 
land, and sometimes resorting to the dry sands along the sea¬ 
shore. Forms a nest of dry grass and other fibrous sub¬ 
stances loosely put together, which is always placed on the 
ground, generally in a horse’s footprint, or in some natural 
depression, under shelter of a tussock or clump of rushes. 
The eggs are usually four in number, and are marked all 
over with spots or freckles of dark grey on a paler or ashy 
OTOllllf 
* Fam. CAMPEPHAGIDJE. 
Genus GllAUCALUS. (Peculiar to Australia.) 
Graucalus melanops, Vig. & Horsf. (Case II. No. 60.) 
An occasional visitant from Australia. Only three in¬ 
stances of its occurrence arc recorded. 
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